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Photo (L to R) Karyn Gojnich, Melanie Stone, Zoe Herbert, Caroline Alders.

Rear Commodore, Karyn Gojnich was recently asked to make a Barranjoey Pin presentation to International Yngling sailors Melanie Stone (nee Denison), RSYS member Fiona Herbert and Caroline Alders.

The Barranjoey Pin is the Australian Sailing Team Alumni Program. It started in 2018 and is designed to acknowledge the legacy and history of Olympic and Paralympic class sailing in Australia, and recognise those athletes who have achieved the Australian Sailing Team standard since the Team's establishment in 2006.

Together Melanie, Fiona and Caroline achieved the following:

2002 9th Yngling Women’s World Championships, Brunnen, Switzerland
2002 1st Pre-Olympics Test Event, Athens, Greece
2003 1st Sail Melbourne Olympic classes event
2003 2nd Scandinavian Olympic Classes Race week, Yngling, Denmark
2003 3rd Hyeres Olympic Classes Race week, Yngling, France
2004 7th Yngling Open World Championships, Sydney Australia

From July 2001 – July 2002 the team was 1st in the Olympic Yngling Class World Rankings, in July 2002 they ranked 2nd and in May 2003 they ranked 4th..

Fiona who lives in Singapore was not able to attend the presentation so her Pin was accepted by her daughter, also a RSYS Member, Zoe.